Random points to ponder

- The press conference on Wed. was laughable. Fox refused air time, and I’m sure the other networks will do the same next time Obama asks for time. The American press has become a caricature of false objectivity.
- “What has enchanted you the most?” – That one will go down as perhaps the most ridiculous question ever asked at a Presidential press conference, and it was asked by the New York Times.
- No one asked Obama about the NYC flyby, or the worse-than-expected decline in the economy this past month. But at least we know what enchants him.
- When is someone going to muzzle Biden? His comments yesterday morning were absurd. But not nearly as absurd as Robert Gibbs later trying to tell us all what he “meant” to say. It amazes me how much the White House underestimates the intelligence of the average American.
- Congrats to the GOP for beginning the purge of their party. It’s people like Arlen Specter that turned conservatives like myself away from the party. If the GOP is going to comeback, they must get rid of those pseudo-conservatives who take conservative money and vote with the liberals. Hopefully, Specter won’t be the first.
- Specter said the party had become too right-wing for him. Too right-wing? That one had me laughing. Again, he must think we’re pretty stupid. Specter has been with the GOP since the Reagan years and yet he wants us all to think that the GOP – the same party who ran up record deficits the past 8 years – has become more right-wing than they were in Reagan’s time? This guy needs to find a rocking chair and a front porch where his nonsensical mumbling would be more appropriate.
- Kalid S. Muhammed was interrogated by the CIA and the only info they got was “you will soon find out…” This sounds like a threat of an imminent attack. It was only then that Bush ordered the waterboarding, and apparently more information was yielded, perhaps even thwarting a major attack. Yet, Obama says there are better ways to get this sort of information. Seems to me those ways failed with KSM.
- Someone needs to ask Obama that – if faced with a similar KSM situation – would he order waterboarding? In other words, suppose all other methods failed and the prisoner clearly had knowledge of an imminent attack on the US. What would Obama do? Instead, we get “what enchants you the most?”
- Obama said that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided. This tells me a lot about his understanding of the Constitution. Regardless of your opinion of abortion, if you have a good grasp of the Constitution as it is written there is no way you can make an argument that the Constitution provides a federally protected right to an abortion without having to make the same argument for rape, incest, pedophilia, domestic violence or even murder.
- John Kerry recently said that newspapers are so important to the American people that a federal bailout of failing papers should be considered.
- Obama’s treasury will lend Chrysler $8 billion in taxpayer dollars. That’s an $8 billion loan to a company in bankruptcy. Sounds like good fiscal policy to me.
- At the same time, Obama ripped Chrysler’s lenders for not forgiving enough of their debt, as though these people were greedy or something. Yeah, shame on you all for loaning money and actually expecting the borrower to pay it back. If lenders would only be as reckless with their money as the government is with our money, perhaps the world would be a better place. After all, we just “loaned” a bankrupt company $8 billion.
- And remember, we ALL need to be more responsible with money…and don’t forget to wash your hands or – as Biden puts it – stay away from any form of public transportation whatsoever.